(US) Navy's First Supercarrier Sold for a Penny

[rd77]

Navy's First Supercarrier Sold for a Penny
MarineLink.comThursday, October 24, 2013, 12:19 AM
 File USS Forrestal in 1982: Photo Wiki CCL
USS Forrestal in 1982: Photo Wiki CCL
The U.S. Navy sold the 1,067-foot behemoth 'USS Forrestal' to a Texas company, All Star Metals, to be dismantled, scrapped and recycled, an inauspicious fate for a ship with a colorful and tragic history, reports Fox News, citing a Navy announcement.
USS Forrestal is perhaps best known for a 1967 incident in which stray voltage triggered an accidental explosion that struck a plane on the flight deck whose cockpit was occupied by a young John McCain. A chain reaction of blasts and fires ultimately killed 134 men and injured more than 300.

But its rich past and nearly four decades of service are not enough to spare the it. The Navy tried to donate the historic ship for use as a memorial or a museum, but no

[ozzy76]

So John McCain aka "Planecrash" McCain was involved in a mishap on Forrestal.

Why am I not surprised..He graduated near the bottom of his Navy class and he crashed 3x planes before going to Vietnam. One time in Spain he hit electricity wires and blacked out a town.
In another he blamed engine failure even though the Navy investigators found out that it wasn't the engine but McCain had the power settings on the engine set too low, for the manoeuvres , he was attempting.

We salute you Planecrash McCain.
He graduated 894th out of 899..Fifth from the bottom of his co-hort.
One wonders, why the US Navy saw fit to give him one of their planes.

[Robert Smith]

Another farewell to arms ...

[Michael]

John Macain didn't cause the accident, he was a victim, the accident was caused by an unguided Zuni rocket going off from another aircraft across the deck, which then struck another aircraft alongside John Macains.

Hope that helps